Facebook and Microsoft to build massive internet underwater cable

epa000410013 Sunday morning saw a colourful sight at the famous Galle Face sea promenade in Colombo, Sunday 10 April 2005. A big white ship, the Tyco Durable of the US, was leaving behind a long trail of bobbing red and yellow buoys. Hard at work underneath the buoys were divers laying the submarine cable SEA-ME-WE 4 to increase the communication capacity -- internet and telephone --of this island nation. EPA/M.A.PUSHPA KUMARA

Microsoft and Facebook announced that the company responsible for manufacturing and installing the cable will be Telxius, Telefónica’s telecommunications infrastructure company.

Facebook and Microsoft announced their plan to build a more than 6400 kilometres long underwater data cable connecting the US with the EU.

The two companies didn’t disclose the cost of the project but they said that the new cable, called MAREA, will be the highest-capacity undersea cable yet across the Atlantic and it will help the two companies “meet the growing customer demand for high speed, reliable connections for cloud and online services for Microsoft, Facebook and their customers.”

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